/* Copyright (C) 2008  Romolo Camplani, Marco Fortunato, Marco Marelli, Guido Rota, Fabio A. Schreiber et al.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
 */
package org.dei.perla.parser.util;


public class FieldType {  
	
	private String type;
	private Class<?> fieldTypeClass;
	
	public FieldType(String typeName) throws IllegalArgumentException {
		
		type = typeName;
		fieldTypeClass = DefinedTypes.getInstance().getTypeClass(typeName);
		
		//TODO: Cercare un'eccezione piu' consona al contesto
		if (fieldTypeClass == null)
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Alias non definito"); 
	}
	
	public FieldType(BuiltInType type) {
		this.type = type.toString();
	}
	
	public boolean hasType(BuiltInType type) {
		
		return this.type.equals(type.toString());
	}
	
	public String getType() {
		return type;
	}
	
	public Class<?> getFieldTypeClass() {
		return fieldTypeClass;
	}
	
	public String toString() {
		return type;
	}
}